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Using Adobe Photoshop, you can quickly fill-in shapes with any color you need, or any of Photoshop's predefined patterns, using the Paint Bucket tool. This applies to shapes you draw in Photoshop, as well as shapes that are in images you have imported, like solid shapes in a photograph.

Paint Bucket Tool

The Paint Bucket tool in the Photoshop Toolbox can fill-in any solid shape with your selected color or pattern, based on what is selected in the Foreground Color swatch. All you have to do is click the shape with the Paint Bucket tool. If the shape isn't exactly the same color, you can adjust the Paint Bucket tool's tolerance for differently-colored pixels in the Options bar. The lower you set the Tolerance number, the closer the pixels have to be to the same color.

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A published author and professional speaker, David Weedmark has advised businesses and governments on technology, media and marketing for more than 20 years. He has taught computer science at Algonquin College, has started three successful businesses, and has written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines throughout Canada and the United States.

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Weedmark, David. "How to Fill a Shape in Photoshop." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/fill-shape-photoshop-80085.html. Accessed 22 February 2019.

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